The phrase "about quotation" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a discussion or explanation regarding a quotation, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "The article is about quotation, but it fails to provide any analysis of the quoted material."
Alternatives: "regarding the quote" or "concerning the quotation".
The bulk of the book was written when the litigious Salinger was still alive, but I can't help wondering if his heirs might have proved a little more relaxed about quotation.
Since the use/mention distinction isn't particularly about quotation, there isn't much that needs to be said about the material/formal mode here either.
It's more obviously about quotation". For Pettibon, the associations with punk rock are uncomfortable.
"From what I know about quotations, there are just some that smell of apocryphalness," he said.
Guy Debord, a brilliant aphorist who coined the phrase "society of the spectacle," is represented only by a late and dubious quotation about quotations.
Editors' Note: January 25 , 2004 Sunday READERS of the Public Editor column will remember that on Jan . 4 I made a lot of clucking noises about quotations that are truncated in such a way as to be misleading.
READERS of the Public Editor column will remember that on Jan . 4 I made a lot of clucking noises about quotations that are truncated in such a way as to be misleading.
He saw nothing odd or improper in dealing with the most exalted subjects and then turning to the more ordinary task of telling students to avoid jargon and cliches, and advising them about quotations and footnotes.
In a column about quotations that never were, I wrote: "And in 1949, the Brooklyn Dodger manager Leo Durocher never quite said, 'Nice guys finish last.' As Ralph Keyes reminded us in his 1993 book, it was 'Nice Guys Finish Seventh.' In those days, baseball's National League had seven teams, and to finish seventh was to finish last".
The document was titled thebookofscott.doc, and it consisted of about 40 quotations organized into five chapters: Discipline, Awareness, Fear, Creativity and General Tonic.
Nobody's talking about a myth," Zarif said, when asked about the quotation.
